Tag: cabernet

by mywinepal • November 19, 2017 • Comments Off on New Wine Releases from Okanagan’s Evolve Cellars and McWatters Collection

BC’s father daughter team of Harry McWatters and Christa-Lee McWatters-Bond have collaborated to produce two lines of wine lately; Evolve Cellars and McWatters Collection. For me Evolve Cellar’s wines are meant to be young and fresh and easy to drink,…

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Big deals seem to be happening often this year. The latest deal was the purchase of a 63-acre vineyard on the Golden Mile Bench owned by C. C. Jentsch Cellars by Phantom Creek Estates. The vineyard was planted to Cabernet family varieties (Cabernet…

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Canada is a big country, with our wine grape growing areas on the limit of possibility, but at the edges of possibility is where you can make exciting wines, I’ve been told. In the Festival Tasting Room I spent many…

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Cabernet Sauvignon is the “King” in California. In our Celebrating California Cabs seminar we had a chance to experience the “Dream Vintages” of 2012, 2013 and 2014. And as you will see, I have rated all these wines very highly. When you have wines…

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by mywinepal • December 12, 2016 • Comments Off on Brockmann’s Chocolates – 30 Years of Making Canada Delicious

Brockmann’s Chocolates Celebrates 30 Years in Canada “Who is the Brockmann family?” They have been in Canada for 30 years making chocolates, and I don’t know about them. But here they are; right underneath my nose! The Brockmann family has been…

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by mywinepal • November 25, 2016 • Comments Off on Presenting the Wines of C.C. Jentsch Cellars at the Vancouver International Wine Fest 2017

Who We Are C.C. Jentsch Cellars was established in 2102 but The Jentsch family has been farming the Okanagan since 1929. Chris and Betty Jentsch are the winery proprietors and winegrowers. Like many people you may assume that C. C.…

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The Wines of British Columbia shone at The Judgment of BC Wine Tasting with Steven Spurrier and DJ Kearney today. Steven Spurrier, the Consultant Editor at Decanter magazine, headed the famous Judgement of Paris in 1976 (which was made into…

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by mywinepal • February 7, 2013 • Comments Off on Events Still Available for the Vancouver International Wine Festival

The early bird gets the worm, or in this case to taste some premium wines from around the world. The Vancouver International Wine Festival is just around the corner, starting the last week of February. There are still some tickets…

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by mywinepal • November 19, 2012 • Comments Off on Taste of Sonoma: A Grand Tasting in Vancouver

Sonoma County in California is not as well known as the county next door, Napa, but it should be better known due to it’s quality wines. Sonoma has a cooler climate than Napa, which is more inland, plus has the…

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by mywinepal • April 6, 2012 • Comments Off on Wine Selections from My First Ever Taste Washington Event

As you may know, I take regular trips down to WA state to visit wineries and tasting rooms (in Woodinville) to learn more about Washington State wines and to pass along that information to you. I had not had the…